No One Can Agree On The Number Of Towels An Adult Should Own

The answer is somewhere between one towel and several hundred

There’s a lot of things you need to figure out once you become an adult: A budget, how to google various illnesses so you don’t shell out copays, home repairs, and the exact number of minutes you can lay in bed in the morning without being late to work. Towel ownership is also a hot topic according to a recent Twitter thread.

Twitter user Abdul (@Advil) threw out a question after he and girlfriend, Anna, moved in together and discovered they disagreed on a critical relationship pillar — how many towels is just the right amount of towels one should own.

“Hello fellow adults,” he wrote. “My gf and i have a question… what is the correct amount of towels to own? i said 10 and she looked at me like i was crazy. we have zero frame of reference on the appropriate amount of towels in a household of two.” He failed to mention if Anna believes they should own more or less than ten towels but it seems the folks of Twitter believe the answer is somewhere between one and several hundred:

https://twitter.com/jetpack/status/1097370268488482816

Even Target got in on the action — because if you want a decent towel at a fair price, you know a trip to Target is in your near future:

Apparently, there’s no secret equation that’s unlocked when you become an adult that gives you the exact amount of towels one should own, which is disappointing. Sure, some of it has to do with bathroom cabinet space, but mostly it comes down to how much of a hoarder you are and how often you like to do laundry.

It would be nice in general to have some sort of handy dandy guide on adulting. I visited my best friend over the summer and came to find out after 25 years of friendship that she only owns one spatula because “You only use one at a time so why would you have more than one?” Just when you think you really know someone. I own seven. You just never know.

But back to the towel debate:

https://twitter.com/jetpack/status/1097512713704693760

https://twitter.com/jetpack/status/1097311367508316160

Which prompted a fair question:

https://twitter.com/jetpack/status/1097507337714184192

Towels fall under a similar category in that you want to have clean ones available for guests, enough to get you through a week without doing laundry, and 15 additional if you own a dog.

Then, throw kids in the mix and you’ll need to up your towel ownership by a multiplier of 75. Kids may be small but they’re dirty and depending on their age and time of year require at least three to seven baths per day, plus several spares lying around when they decide to flush G.I Joe action figures down the toilet.

At this point, it sounds like Abdul and his girlfriend only have themselves to consider, which is fun. It doesn’t really matter at this point because when they get married any current towels will get tossed to the side for the monogrammed variety. You have the same last name now, Abdul, you’ve just moved into the married towel category. Just one more stage of adulting no one warns you about.